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John Woo's feature Length debut was released by Golden Harvest after a severe editing job. A unique film due to the fact it was John Woo's cinematic debut as a director. After working under the great Chang Cheh, Woo takes his turn in the director's chair. Young Dragons is a very violent and gritty film about low life criminals and their sadistic counterparts. Hark Fung-On and Dorian Tam appear in this film and the two go at it like a couple of mad dogs.

Early fight choreography by future star Jackie Chan and several action set pieces make their debut in this film. John Woo likes to reuse old action set pieces (The fight in the Mansion and the duel on horseback, i.e. Motorcycles come to mind). Not a brilliant or a bad film, satisfactory action film. Entertaining at times, Young Dragons is an okay action film. But an essential for die hard John Woo fans.

Recommended for fans of this genre

B

Factoids: Future star Shing Fui-on makes a cameo apperence along with the director John Woo.